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View article: What Happens When Data Centers Come to Town?
What Happens When Data Centers Come to Town? Open
The rapid growth of data centers, with their enormous energy and water demands, necessitates targeted policy interventions to mitigate environmental impacts and protect local communities. To address these issues, states with existing data …
View article: Book Review Symposium for Juliane Jarke and Jo Bates (Eds.). (2024). Dialogues in Data Power: Shifting Response-Abilities in a Datafied World
Book Review Symposium for Juliane Jarke and Jo Bates (Eds.). (2024). Dialogues in Data Power: Shifting Response-Abilities in a Datafied World Open
View article: “Locked Out” of China: International Higher Education Students experiences with Involuntary Immobility during Covid-19
“Locked Out” of China: International Higher Education Students experiences with Involuntary Immobility during Covid-19 Open
This article utilizes a dual-pronged aspirations-capabilities framework to highlight the experiences of international students that were “locked out” of China during the extent of the Covid-19 pandemic. This participatory action research (…
View article: Introduction to the bire Postgraduate Special Issue: Demythologizing Higher Education
Introduction to the bire Postgraduate Special Issue: Demythologizing Higher Education Open
View article: Postdigital Citizen Science and Humanities: A Theoretical Kaleidoscope
Postdigital Citizen Science and Humanities: A Theoretical Kaleidoscope Open
View article: Covering integers by $x^2 + dy^2$
Covering integers by $x^2 + dy^2$ Open
What proportion of integers $n \leqslant N$ may be expressed as $x^2 + dy^2$ for some $d \leqslant Δ$, with $x,y $ integers? Writing $Δ$ as $(\log N)^{\log 2} 2^{α\sqrt{\log \log N}}$ for some $α\in (-\infty, \infty)$, we show that the ans…
View article: UNDERSTANDING COLLABORATIVE DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING PRACTICE AS A METHODOLOGY FOR EXPLORING PARTICIPANT PERSPECTIVES OF PLACE IN AREAS OF LOW SOCIAL MOBILITY
UNDERSTANDING COLLABORATIVE DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING PRACTICE AS A METHODOLOGY FOR EXPLORING PARTICIPANT PERSPECTIVES OF PLACE IN AREAS OF LOW SOCIAL MOBILITY Open
Documentary filmmaking practitioners have long engaged with socio-political narratives within a given society, and whether as a tool for creative exploration, aesthetic engagement, an ethnographic methodology or to greater understand the f…
View article: Scholarly Responses to “Who Leads, Who Follows?”
Scholarly Responses to “Who Leads, Who Follows?” Open
Who Leads, Who Follows? "Critical Review of the Field of Leadership Studies" by Professor Michael A. Peters, offers one of the clearest and most complete discussions of "critical leadership studies" in the twenty-first century.It deeply co…
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View article: “If it didn’t happen, why would I change my decision?”: How Judges Respond to Counterfactual Explanations for the Public Safety Assessment
“If it didn’t happen, why would I change my decision?”: How Judges Respond to Counterfactual Explanations for the Public Safety Assessment Open
Many researchers and policymakers have expressed excitement about algorithmic explanations enabling more fair and responsible decision-making. However, recent experimental studies have found that explanations do not always improve human us…
View article: Childhood Asthma Incidence, Early and Persistent Wheeze, and Neighborhood Socioeconomic Factors in the ECHO/CREW Consortium
Childhood Asthma Incidence, Early and Persistent Wheeze, and Neighborhood Socioeconomic Factors in the ECHO/CREW Consortium Open
Adjusting for individual-level characteristics, we observed neighborhood socioeconomic disparities in childhood wheeze and asthma. Black and Hispanic children had more asthma in neighborhoods of all income levels. Neighborhood- and individ…
View article: "If it didn't happen, why would I change my decision?": How Judges Respond to Counterfactual Explanations for the Public Safety Assessment
"If it didn't happen, why would I change my decision?": How Judges Respond to Counterfactual Explanations for the Public Safety Assessment Open
Many researchers and policymakers have expressed excitement about algorithmic explanations enabling more fair and responsible decision-making. However, recent experimental studies have found that explanations do not always improve human us…
View article: Technology Ethics in Action: Critical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Technology Ethics in Action: Critical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives Open
This special issue interrogates the meaning and impacts of "tech ethics": the embedding of ethics into digital technology research, development, use, and governance. In response to concerns about the social harms associated with digital te…
View article: “If it Didn't Happen, Why Would I Change My Decision?”: How Judges Respond to Counterfactual Explanations for the Public Safety Assessment
“If it Didn't Happen, Why Would I Change My Decision?”: How Judges Respond to Counterfactual Explanations for the Public Safety Assessment Open
View article: The Contestation of Tech Ethics: A Sociotechnical Approach to Technology Ethics in Practice
The Contestation of Tech Ethics: A Sociotechnical Approach to Technology Ethics in Practice Open
This article introduces the special issue "Technology Ethics in Action:\nCritical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives". In response to recent\ncontroversies about the harms of digital technology, discourses and practices\nof "tech ethics" h…
View article: Data Science as Political Action: Grounding Data Science in a Politics of Justice
Data Science as Political Action: Grounding Data Science in a Politics of Justice Open
In response to public scrutiny of data-driven algorithms, the field of data science has adopted ethics training and principles. Although ethics can help data scientists reflect on certain normative aspects of their work, such efforts are i…
View article: Escaping the Impossibility of Fairness: From Formal to Substantive Algorithmic Fairness
Escaping the Impossibility of Fairness: From Formal to Substantive Algorithmic Fairness Open
Efforts to promote equitable public policy with algorithms appear to be fundamentally constrained by the "impossibility of fairness" (an incompatibility between mathematical definitions of fairness). This technical limitation raises a cent…
View article: Virtue Signaling: Problematizing Creative Labor Within Knowledge Socialism
Virtue Signaling: Problematizing Creative Labor Within Knowledge Socialism Open
View article: The changing map of international student mobility
The changing map of international student mobility Open
This article presents fifteen essays following a prompt on the changing map of international student mobility through three disruptions, namely Brexit, America First and COVID-19. These essays written by postgraduate students at Beijing No…
View article: Ecological Civilizationalism: Greater Educational Cooperation and Sustainable Development under the bri
Ecological Civilizationalism: Greater Educational Cooperation and Sustainable Development under the bri Open
Ecological Civilization (EC) represents a constituted effort on the part of China to utilize its developing regional linkages to promote a form of globalization that places the bioeconomy as a foundational core of sustainable global develo…
View article: Impossibility of What? Formal and Substantive Equality in Algorithmic Fairness
Impossibility of What? Formal and Substantive Equality in Algorithmic Fairness Open
View article: Earning and Learning: Undergraduate Student Employment and The Importance of Relevant Work
Earning and Learning: Undergraduate Student Employment and The Importance of Relevant Work Open
Current trends in undergraduate education show that more students than ever are working part-time jobs during college, and their academics are likely suffering as a result, as a greater number of hours worked correlates with a decrease in …
View article: The Contestation of Tech Ethics: A Sociotechnical Approach to Ethics and Technology in Action
The Contestation of Tech Ethics: A Sociotechnical Approach to Ethics and Technology in Action Open
View article: The Flaws of Policies Requiring Human Oversight of Government Algorithms
The Flaws of Policies Requiring Human Oversight of Government Algorithms Open
View article: Classification and Coding of Data About IgE-mediated Food Allergic Reactions
Classification and Coding of Data About IgE-mediated Food Allergic Reactions Open
Background: Collation of clinical data on IgE-mediated food allergies is essential to provide evidenced-based approaches to managing and treating food allergies and prevent accidental reactions. However, this can be a time consuming and di…
View article: Updated KPIs for electrolysers performing grid services
Updated KPIs for electrolysers performing grid services Open
This report investigates the performance indicators for electrolysers performing grid services as defined in the testing protocols and derived from the economic analysis in the project QualyGridS. It selects the three primary performance i…
View article: Philosophy of education in a new key: Who remembers Greta Thunberg? Education and environment after the coronavirus
Philosophy of education in a new key: Who remembers Greta Thunberg? Education and environment after the coronavirus Open
This paper explores relationships between environment and education after the Covid-19 pandemic through the lens of philosophy of education in a new key developed by Michael Peters and the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia (PE…
View article: The WHO, the global governance of health and pandemic politics
The WHO, the global governance of health and pandemic politics Open
The World Health Organization (WHO) has been subjected to serious criticism for its handling of the COVID-19 virus, specifically that it failed to act decisively to stop the global outbreak and tha...
View article: US–China Rivalry and ‘Thucydides’ Trap’: Why this is a misleading account
US–China Rivalry and ‘Thucydides’ Trap’: Why this is a misleading account Open
In Book 2 of The Peloponnesian War, the ancient Greek historian Thucydides describes the Plague of Athens which killed an estimated 75,000 people in 430 BC, the second year of the war. Thucydides i...
View article: Cryptocurrencies, China's sovereign digital currency (DCEP) and the US dollar system
Cryptocurrencies, China's sovereign digital currency (DCEP) and the US dollar system Open
The Central Bank of China is testing its Digital Currency Electronic Payment (DCEP) in the cities of Shenzhen, Suzhou, Chengdu and Xunan with the involvement of four large state-owned banks in the ...